Quote Originally Posted by Shougun View Post
That's awesome! Even better to use then I thought. I was under the impression it was like a concerted effort. You know like first learning how to do a Jedi mind trick or something lol. The fact you can even talk and drive (at a slight performance cost) is incredible.
I know other interfaces can require a lot of effort, like EEG, but with the implants robot control is very intuitive and easy. But that isn't to say that controlling other things is always intuitive and easy. I did get to try a different decoder to play this week, 3D arm with wrist roll and grasp vs. 2D cursor and a "click" dimension in the video. It was a mess. That gives about 6 buttons to push. Control was bad partly because we didn't have much time to adjust all the settings and which arm dimension was which button, and partly because I was too ambitious and underestimated the mental gymnastics required to control that many dimensions. Next time I'll try to practice with a few less buttons to "push" it's not like i'm raiding and will get kicked or something for not doing my song rotation and keeping all my DoTs up lol. I reactivated my subscription so I'm playing my capped level 60 Bard with Garo gear and can kill a lot of things even while playing sub-optimally.

So just a vague question like.. do you ever think as if you were talking to the machine when doing something else, especially when you're not connected at the moment or at least just feel a change because of it?
I get asked questions like this a lot actually, and the similar "does it feel like the robot is part of you?". I've always seen it as an external tool. While control is easy and can feel as if I'm just moving my own arm, I've never felt "like it WAS me". I've also never had the feeling of "talking" to it while not connected.